Last call to join the September challenge: A Fish Out of Plot Quill Loop! 🦔 Get your warm-up words in before November, test the new real-time editor, and snag a spot on the leaderboard before this sprint wraps up. Jump in here: https://www.quillloop.com/challenges/2

Fish Out of Plot - Quill Loop Challenge

What happens when you yank your protagonist out of their comfort zone and drop them into the completely wrong story? Take your protagonist - whether they are a hardened noir detective, a burnt-out barista, or a cowboy and drop them into a setting where they absolutely do not belong. How do they survive? What do they say when the rules of physics (or magic) suddenly stop making sense? The Twist: Your main character must retain their original personality, job, and dialogue. Will they survive?

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Tag the writing buddy who'll have to talk you out of abandoning your manuscript halfway through November. 🦔 #NaNoWriMo #Nanaimo #amWriting #author #NanaimoChallenge

November is the only month when I condone 3 pages of navel-gazing. Thinking about going outside? Realizing how green the grass is? Contemplating the deep existential meaning of a door handle? All in the service of 50k words. 🦔 #NanaimoIsComing #NaNoWriMo #AmWriting #NanaimoChallenge #WritingCom

"Wow, that draft is dreadful..." Compliments to the author; you actually got it on the page! First drafts are supposed to suck. Write first, edit later. 🦔 #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #FirstDraft #AuthorLife #WritersOfBluesky

If you have more pens and notebooks than words in your novel... you might be a writer. 🦔 #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AuthorLife #WritersOfBluesky #WritingHumor

The doc doesn't care about your excuses, and your characters literally can't...unless you write them to. 5 minutes. 5 words. 5 times a day. Even the busiest person can manage that. Open the doc. 🦔 #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AuthorLife #WritersOfBluesky #MicroGoals

You hear that sound? Me either. Your keyboard is awfully quiet today. Why don't you sit down and write? 🦔 #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AuthorLife #WritersOfBluesky #WriteToday

"The door flung open, and there in the entrance stood..." Want to know what happened next? Me too. Sit down and write it. 🦔 #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritersOfBluesky #AuthorLife #WritingPrompt

Last time I checked the calendar, there was no day called "someday." You know what is on the calendar, though? Today. Five minutes at the keys today makes an author tomorrow. Open the doc. 🦔 #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AuthorLife #WritersOfBluesky #WriteToday

Ever dropped your character into a totally different genre to see what would happen? Imagine a hardened beat cop dropped into a fantasy land with dragons. What would they do? What would they say? 🦔 #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #GenreBending #WritersOfBluesky

It's the weekend - here is your challenge - write 100 words can be about anything, your novel, a poem, that random stray thought that won't go away - just sit down and write it. 🦔 #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #100Words #WritersOfBluesky

Thursday Night: Let's toss our main character off a cliff and break his legs. Friday Morning: F*&% you past me, now what am I supposed to do with this... #amWriting #authorMoments #writing

What happens when you yank your protagonist out of their comfort zone and drop them into the completely wrong story? Find out in our new writing challenge: A Fish Out of Plot 🐟 www.quillloop.com/challenges/2 🦔 #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritersOfBluesky #WritingPrompt

You know what isn't writing your novel? Spending 3 hours researching how an LED flashes hundreds of times per second to show dimming (Yes, I know you just looked that up; no, you should not have). Now write. 🦔 #research #amWriting #authorLife

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"Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too." Esther Freud #amwriting #writerslife #writing #quotes #WritingCommunity #booksky

Writing an entire chapter: 10 hours Revising it 3 times to get it just right: 20 hours The Pain of scrapping it, cause creates a plot paradox: priceless. The relief of digging it out of the darlings graveyard 3 days later and making it work - That's Quill Loop #amWriting #authorLife

Research tip: #AskALibrarian No, seriously. The staff at your local library don't always know the answer to your question... But they'll know where to find it. And they're happy to help. Save it for the second draft, though. (You are on your second draft, right? 👀) #AmWriting #authorlife

6:00 AM. House is dark, page is blank, and the cursor is blinking impatiently as it waits for chapter 6 to be. Excuses are officially out of stock today. Sit down, open the draft, and let’s get to work. 🦔 #WritingCommunity #WritersOfBluesky #MorningRoutine #AuthorLife

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The best ideas don't happen while you wait for inspiration. They happen when you sit down at the keyboard anyway and find a creative way out of the corner you wrote your characters into. Sit down and write. 🦔 #amWriting #writingCommunity #AuthorLife #Drafting

Another week has come and gone. Dare you to post your word count this week (or lack thereof!). Promise I won't judge... much. 🦔 #amWriting #writingCommunity #WordCount

We often already know what your character saw, and what they heard. But what do they smell? Feel? Taste? "The man was no more than 5 feet from her hiding spot. She looked down and saw a spider, eyes wide she clamped her mouth shut forcing herself not to scream."

99 versions of my book have I draft 99 drafts of my book. Open the doc, make a change... 99 notes from my agent again! #amWriting #editing #Author #writingProblems

The first tip in most books on learning to write is "Sit down and write," and I tend to believe them, after all - they wrote a book, and I'm holding it. #amWriting #writingCommunity #writingTips #IndieAuthors

Mondays are heavy, and the alarm clock never goes off at a good time. What better escape from the Monday blues than slipping back into the fictional world of your manuscript? ☕️📖 Write a scene today, even if it's just 100 words. 🦔 #EscapeMonday #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

"She yawned and opened her eyes slowly" vs "She was startled awake by the sound of glass breaking" - Which one is more interesting? Start your book with action, and hook your readers early. Backstory can come later. #amWriting #writing #writingTips

It's Saturday. You promised yourself you'd write. The cursor and I are both waiting, and unlike the cursor, I don't blink. Start writing; I'm watching. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AuthorLife 🦔

Quick Tip Friday: Stop watering down your prose with weak modifiers. "She walked quickly" ➡️ "She sprinted." "He was somewhat cross" ➡️ "He was furious." Stop apologising for your beats. Pick a strong word and own it. #WritingCommunity #WritingTips #AmEditing #AuthorLife 🦔